If i had known about all the bloatware samsung shoves into their phones before i got one, it woulda never left the shelf. There are about 5 junk apps in my play store queue right now and was able to uninstall another 4 so they dont show up in the list, but its massively inconvenient to have to do that to begin with. Would rather be allowed to opt out of the stuff out of the box.

god i miss having an ir blaster on my phone

Wait until anon learns about the flipper zero

Smart TV 'remote' apps are infinitely worse than an IR blaster

It's bad when people mispronounce mischievous but this dude actually spelled it the way people mispronounce it lmao

Samsung phones at that time also had IR blasters

I had custom firmware installed on my PSP and got in trouble for turning the projector on and off on high school.

Had a HTC One M8 back in the day. Had a lot of fun confusing the shit out of the teachers after turning off the audio system and projector lmao

I do this with my OnePlus Open and the TV at work.

I used to want one of these IR blaster things to kill tvs in waiting rooms, but then earbuds got better and cheaper and more generally useful.

I had a Casio remote control watch that I was actually using all the time in my room. I used it in an evil way only once, since the TV sales guy was showing off how loud the super high-end TV is. As he turned the volume up with a maniacal smile, I just pressed OFF button. New money couple lost interest immediately.

It is Casio CMD-40 for the interested.

trolling aside, has anybody had any luck with those 3.5mm ir blaster adapters? my phone has a headphone jack but no blaster and i don't have the original remote for my stereo :p

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone

One of the things I like about my OnePlus 12

Best use is it allows me to control the A/C in my apartment complex's gym :)

I miss my old HTC thunderbolt. Removable storage, IR blaster, removable battery. Phones while they have gotten faster, and the software /cameras improved, the actual phones design has gotten so much worse over the years.

I always wanted one because I was pretty young when they were putting IR blasters in cell phones and I thought I'd be able to remote control anything like Johnny Five in Short Circuit 2.

I had this watched with a calculator and ir blaster. It was great! I still have it actually